IU searches for students who tossed guinea pig from dorm window

WTHR ^

[reagan_fanatic]

What? No back-up parachute??

[melbell]

"This reminds me of the jerks at St. Mary's University in Halifax who got a cat stoned on marijuana, shaved it, then dropped it from their twelfth-storey residence window."

uh...it shouldn't really remind you of that at all. They didn't shoot up the piggy with crack, shave it, and drop it without a parachute... They weren't trying to drug and kill the animal...

[Oldexpat]

Decades ago..when I was at school..we had hamster that was a veteran of 100 jumps. He actually died from injuries received from inserting a shoe tree into his space in a shoe..He was buried with full military honors.
It was a military academy..

[Fierce Allegiance]

I launched frogs using the big D engines. Made a ton of noise, but were usually so top heavy I think only 1 in 12 made it.

[melbell]

He was living in the shoe? And somebody put a shoe-horn in it?

[Modok]

Thanks for the post. I needed a good laugh this morning. A hawk would have just ripped the living meat off the live animal if had caught it. People today are so sonnnsitive.

[melbell]

I just keep reading this, and there's so much in it to make fun of!

""Whoever did this did it in broad daylight," Hoffacker said. "They just didn't care, and I think it is quite disturbing.""

Apparently, when this woman's mother dropped her, she forgot the parachute...

[asgardshill]

I used the C sized engines - couldn't get the Ds around here. I launched a chicken house worth of eggs (and got most of them back pretty much intact).

[Age of Reason]

I guess it's better to save the animal for the usual school laboratory experiments.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I think Estes made a mint off of me. All my paper route money went into rockets, until I got my first motorcycle. With the motorcycle, some other stuff became uncool, like the rockets & tonka trucks, so I had to find a way to dispose of the old fun.

D-sized rocket engines and a tonka truck full of 2-stroke premix gas makes a hell of a lot of smoke when it slams into a powerpole & ignites. My mom was pissed!

Nowadays, a kids would be jailed and forced on ritalin for the stuff we did on a regular basis.

[Trinity_Tx]

Samwise: She was scared

Revelation 911: anthropomorphic sentiment

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lol You don't think they can be "scared" too?

From the article:

"They just didn't care, and I think it is quite disturbing."

That pretty much sums it up for me too.

[Centurion2000]

Decades ago..when I was at school..we had hamster that was a veteran of 100 jumps. He actually died from injuries received from inserting a shoe tree into his space in a shoe..He was buried with full military honors.

I have to wonder if they still dig graves for sand fleas killed by recruits at Parris Island.

[Fudd]

IU is in a small town - students find creative means of entertainment. My IU-grad BIL and his buddies would go out of town on a Friday night, make a dummy from their old laundry, and lay it in the middle of a road around a blind curve. Most people would stop, but one night someone just kept on going. They were picking up their laundry a mile down the road.

[Aquinasfan]

In my freshman year, some sicko left a "decorated" inflatable sex doll in our room as some kind of practical joke. We were freaked and tossed it out the first floor window. This turned out to be a bad idea since two women were walking by pushing baby strollers (the only time this ever happened that I can remember). The next thing you know two very angry women came storming into our room. It was a baaaaaaaaaad scene.

[asgardshill]

My best friend's father owned a hobby shop, so we had an unending source of aeronautical toys to play with.

Nowadays, a kids would be jailed and forced on ritalin for the stuff we did on a regular basis.

Ain't that the truth. The acetylene gas-filled weather balloons I launched then detonated with bottle rockets alone would have gotten me locked up as a terrorist these days.

[Trinity_Tx]

"Apparently, when this woman's mother dropped her, she forgot the parachute..."

Ironic coming from someone who just said,

"(Is it sad that I'm sitting here in my mind trying to think of safer ways to do this to my puppy??-- she would love it though)"

[TNCMAXQ]

At least the thing survived. Still sounds a little cruel though. This does sound a little like a comedy bit.

Maybe they should have thrown a baby Jesus doll out instead. Then the campus administration would be looking for this person to make them a hero.

[melbell]

I don't understand what point you are trying to make.

Are you implying that I must have been dropped to think it would be fun to safely parachute my puppy out of a window?

[Trinity_Tx]

No. See the underlined part?

There. ; )

[GodBlessUSA]

It is sick.

I don't understand the the humor in this. Young adults can't find anything better to do than torment an innocent animal. They have much too much time on their hands. Maybe they need a heavier course schedule or a job.